There is a common belief that the funding and management of aged care is a problem for aged care providers. It is not.
It is a problem for every family, every employer, and every taxpayer in Malaysia. Most of us have simply not received the bill yet.
Start in a public hospital ward. An older patient is medically ready to leave, but there is nowhere to go – or no one at home able to provide care. So they stay.
An acute bed, one of the most expensive resources in the health system at an estimated RM500 a day, is now doing the work of a nursing home.
